Congress's Cromwellian revolution

In Britain, the monarch is kept quite separate from the prime minister. This allows Brits to harshly criticize their chief
executive without being thought unpatriotic.

When a president gets into
trouble, he is inclined to wrap himself in the flag so those who challenge
him are accused of being un-American and unpatriotic. Imagine how much easier
it would have been to censure Richard Nixon had he not also been head of
state.